c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
"The society based on production is only productive, not creative." — Albert Camus
"The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change." — Richard Bach
"I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything - I do everything all wrong - but I think for me that's the best - because I don't think I have a voice so I think what I project would be style - if I learned to sing I'd lose my style." — Julie London
"Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam." — Marshall McLuhan
"Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim." — John D. Rockefeller
"I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things." — Henry Rollins
"On the other hand, there would be some value in different folks getting together to share expertise and technology but to the listener, it wouldn't necessarily seem like a single station in the traditional sense." — Jamie Zawinski
"Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired." — Plautus
"That's a funny thing, fame. People definitely do treat you differently. When you begin to be successful, people say, 'Don't go changing.' Well, that's easy to say, but the fact is, you don't change at all - other people do." — Jonathan Rhys Meyers
"Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?" — John Leonard
"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." — Jimmy Dean
"One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap." — Stella Adler
"The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member." — Ellen Barkin
"Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition." — A. R. Ammons
"I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians." — Elton John
"Who sows fear, reaps weapons." — Friedrich Durrenmatt
"Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have." — Tom Wilson
"There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination." — Lionel Trilling
"Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics." — Sloane Crosley
"I am President of the UN created University for Peace, which has a strong commitment to the relationship between peace, security and the environment. I meet with young people around the world and I always come away enthused and encouraged." — Maurice Strong
"Politics is just show business for ugly people." — Jay Leno
"Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public." — Epictetus
"Well, food's always the way to anybody's heart, I think, guy or girl." — Josh Hutcherson
"I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration." — Ice Cube
"There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting." — John Kenneth Galbraith
"Pennsylvania is a very tough state people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics." — Arlen Specter
"I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music." — Nick Cave
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." — Pablo Picasso
"We pay when old for the excesses of youth." — J. B. Priestley
"To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self." — Samuel Johnson
"If you ever get rich and famous, by definition you are special. You have done something special, and therefore you start to behave special. Then if the floor drops out, and you become down and out, you have a really new perspective." — Danny Bonaduce
"Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers?" — Elayne Boosler
"You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone." — Tom Waits
"The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it." — Marguerite Duras
"I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively." — Golda Meir
"The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people." — Olof Palme
"The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible." — Ernest Holmes
"I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999." — Kenneth Robert Livingstone
"More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other." — Walter Isaacson
"Solutions-oriented campaigning with a little passion and a little humor I think that will go a long way. I think people are desperate for it." — Laura Ingraham
"Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time." — Henry Rollins
"How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy." — Anna Held
"If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree." — Jim Rohn
"Passion is momentary love is enduring." — John Wooden
"If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived." — Gloria Swanson
"While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner." — Mike Pence
"Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art." — Andy Warhol
"Much good art got made while money ruled I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good news is that, since almost no one will be selling art, artists - especially emerging ones - won't have to think about turning out a consistent style or creating a brand. They'll be able to experiment as much as they want." — Jerry Saltz
"Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense." — Boris Spassky
"Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility." — Rick Perry
"A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money." — Carter Glass
"For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry." — Paul Muldoon
"I remember an article, I can't recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing." — Claude Chabrol
"If you can laugh together, you can work together." — Robert Orben
"The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones." — Solomon Ibn Gabirol
"Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day." — Emo Philips
"President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom." — Mitt Romney
"The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects." — Leonardo da Vinci
"I keep my diet simple by sticking to mostly fruits and vegetables all day and then having whatever I want for dinner. I end up making healthy choices, like sushi or grilled fish, because I feel so good from eating well." — Jennifer Morrison
"I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is." — Aasif Mandvi
"My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry." — Albert Finney
"I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids." — Barbara Kingsolver
"Sometimes they are a matter of luck the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates." — Bill Brandt
"It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity." — William Ellery Channing
"I'm getting older now, so I should think about a family, but certainly not tomorrow." — Christina Ricci
"By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size." — Steven Chu
"For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change." — John Hawkes
"I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat Bob Marley got heat Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right." — Ziggy Marley
"There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it." — Thomas R. Cech
"It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber." — Robert Fulghum
"I remember the first time I saw the 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' video. I will never forget that day. I just wanted to see Kurt Cobain's face. I had a feeling he was very cute. But, I couldn't see his face. When I finally did see him, he was even cuter than I imagined!" — Shakira
"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built." — Eleanor Roosevelt
"I always watched movies and rooted for the bad guys, you know? I've always been that kind of guy. I still hold some respect for criminals that are good at their jobs." — Justin Townes Earle
"I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is." — Donald Trump
"Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty." — Timothy Radcliffe
"It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people the power to think and be individual, that's evil?" — Glenn Danzig
"If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner or by momentarily resigning the game or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him." — Howard Staunton
"Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live." — Marcus Aurelius
"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose." — Kris Kristofferson
"Absence - that common cure of love." — Lord Byron
"I don't mind a little Sturm und Drang. When I was doing 'Riding in Cars With Boys,' I wouldn't smile at anybody, because my character, Bev, was angry at the world. I'm the opposite. Inside my head I'd be like, God, I'll explain to you at the end of shooting that I'm not this person." — Drew Barrymore
"To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success." — Henry J. Heinz
"Inspiration for my music just comes from, you know, my life experiences." — Avril Lavigne
"Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon." — Sidney Altman
"I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'" — Lady Gaga
"I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise." — Christopher Hitchens
"It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles." — Muriel Spark
"We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration." — Josefa Iloilo
"Basically, there are two things we know: Everybody has less time, and the general public is demanding better food - better in terms of quality and better in terms of flavor." — Bobby Flay
"Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end." — Sid Caesar
"Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life." — Stefan Zweig
"I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper." — Emo Philips
"In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy." — Marcus Tullius Cicero
"An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel." — Paul D. Boyer
"I am blood type O-positive, which I remember by staying 'optimistic positive.'" — Michael Weatherly
"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive." — Joseph Campbell
"Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do." — Napoleon Hill
"Travel teaches as much as books." — Youssou N'Dour
"I do support a sex-positive attitude for young people. Use condoms, that's important. I love the idea that promiscuity can be healthy but it's got some dodgy crevasses. Ooh, that's a bad reference! But it's got some dangerous cavities there. You know what I'm saying." — Rachael Taylor
"Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day." — Charles Evans Hughes
"Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another." — W. H. Auden
"Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man." — Jean Ingelow
"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it." — C. S. Lewis
"That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity." — Lester Maddox
"Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic." — James Buchan
"Philanthropy is the thing that I am really excited about, and having success means I can do more." — will.i.am
"Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good." — Friedrich Nietzsche
"On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind." — Dan Lipinski
"People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that." — Max Cannon
"Working on the 'Ice Age' movies, I'm really proud to be in them." — Seann William Scott
"Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country." — Marguerite Duras
"There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits." — David Ricardo
"In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better." — Edward de Bono
"The reason we are doing these types of pat downs and using the advanced imagery technology is trying to take the latest intelligence and how we know al Qaeda and affiliates want to hurt us, they want to bring down whether it is passenger air craft or cargo aircraft." — John Pistole
"We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today." — Henry Ford
"The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life." — George Bernard Shaw
"I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night." — Liam Gallagher
"There are a lot of things that are personally uncomfortable to show, especially me without makeup and completely bloated or crying. But I've realized that it's time for me to show my audience that you don't have to be perfect to achieve your dreams. Because nobody relates to being perfect." — Katy Perry
"Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character." — Loretta Young
"A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'" — Eminem
"The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world." — George Eliot
"I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure." — Rachael Ray
"We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts." — Ray Bradbury
"There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have this incredible smorgasbord, and it really interests me why people are drawn to one faith rather than another, especially to a system of belief that to an outsider seems absurd or dangerous." — Lawrence Wright
"My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread - works all the time. I think I've been eating pasta for 26 years." — Tom Brady
"It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money." — W. C. Fields
"I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it.' But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise." — Ron Wyden
"I'm convinced I got signed because of who I am. And it makes me sad." — Jeff Buckley
"The Marshall Plan was after destruction, and the U.S. came to our help and obviously this was very, very important for the future of Europe. I think now we have all the capabilities of doing it on our own and, in a sense, we have to." — George Papandreou
"It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves." — Kristen Stewart
"Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world." — Hillary Clinton
"No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power." — Jacob Bronowski
"Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them." — Martin Henry Fischer
"The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas." — George Santayana
"Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God." — Herschel Walker
"Ireland sober is Ireland stiff." — James Joyce
"There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization." — Arthur Erickson
"When I was younger it was - you know, my dad dressed up in drag on 'Bosom Buddies.' And that was what I was having to deal with at the time. And then around the time that I was into college was when he became statue-worthy I guess you could say." — Colin Hanks
"I think Chris Weitz is an amazing director, and his sensibility - I wouldn't even know how to articulate it - it's just, he's a very sensitive, interesting guy." — Elizabeth Reaser
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages." — William Shakespeare
"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid." — Dwight D. Eisenhower
"To this day, my mom's unsinkable spirit is an inspiration to me. For nearly thirty years, she's worked at the Library of Congress. Everyone knows Sameha simply as 'Sami.' Along with 500 miles of shelved books, her closest friendships are cataloged in that library. They are as much the value of work to my mom as is the work itself." — Hoda Kotb
"I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will." — David Hockney
"So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness." — David Herbert Lawrence
"I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do." — Kate Beckinsale
"It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him." — Max Planck
"Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder." — Tom Hiddleston
"Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older." — Max Muller
"What I had said in the morning was that this is what we know has happened, but there has been no significant off-site release. Only to find out moments later that, in fact, there had been an off-site release. I still haven't gotten over that." — William Scranton
"I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect." — Alexander Jackson Davis
"If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England." — Paul Harris
"I remember once acting really cool on a bus with this girl named Stephanie. When I got home, I realized that I had a really big zit on my forehead. If you have acne problems, you really shouldn't be acting like Don Juan." — John Cusack
"The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry." — Robert Morgan
"There's a line I have that our family was designed more for public than for private. But there are definitely some things that are only mine. I am someone who dreams at night, and you don't know what I'm dreaming." — Carrie Fisher
"Never mind your happiness do your duty." — Peter Drucker
"Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them." — Owen Feltham
"Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people." — Hu Shih
"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens." — Khalil Gibran
"People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent." — Natan Sharansky
"I almost always do things that I like, in some form or fashion. Every once in awhile that means that I don't think the script is any good and I don't have any trust in the people, but the film is shooting in Sri Lanka, or somewhere like that, so I'm going." — Billy Campbell
"Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an 'A' pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, that's not how it works." — Eric Ries
"The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone." — Ellie Goulding
"I'm not a relationship expert. I'm an expert on manhood." — Steve Harvey
"Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth." — Virginia Woolf
"The only abnormality is the incapacity to love." — Anais Nin
"One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound." — Dennis Prager
"I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone." — John Barton
"People are fed up with the politics where candidates just rip each other apart and then the voters lose in the end because no one really knows what anybody stands for." — Dennis Kucinich
"Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food." — Sandra Lee
"Sectarian divide has created a schism in our society that is a major challenge. As monarch of all Bahrainis, it pains me to see many harmed by the actions of a few. And yet I am optimistic and have faith in our people. We all realize that now is the time to strike a balance between stability and gradual reform." — Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
"If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love." — Michel de Montaigne
"I'm 18 in this album. I'm not losing fans, and I'm not disrepecting women, but you reach the maturity of taking it to the next level with a girl. It was only necessary for me to have at least one song like that." — Chris Brown
"In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me." — Mary J. Blige
"The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven." — William Ellery Channing
"I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't." — Chester Brown
"Julia progresses from cradle to grave, showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy, high unemployment, falling wages, rising gas prices, the national debt, the insolvency of entitlements - all these are fictionally assumed away in a cartoon that is produced by a president who wants us to forget about them." — Mitt Romney
"How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success." — William Ellery Channing
"But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated." — Kathy Ireland
"I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies." — Jet Li
"Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance." — Joy Page
"The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family - my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid - to live in the apartment building." — Tom Morello
"'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone." — Harry Connick, Jr.
"For me, it's about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It's where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that's very important to me." — Beyonce Knowles
"The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle." — Eric Hoffer
"I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek." — Patrick Stewart
"Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation." — Thomas Carlyle
"My mom's passionate and energetic and very funny and enthusiastic." — Eric Stonestreet
"Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties." — Dalai Lama
"Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things." — Jesse Jackson
"You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen." — Joe DiMaggio
"I know a man who doesn't pay to have his trash taken out. How does he get rid of his trash? He gift wraps it, and puts in into an unlocked car." — Henny Youngman
"Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling." — Margaret Lee Runbeck
"If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater." — Pam Brown
"There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library." — Anthony Hecht
"I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting... Something's going down. I'm right about this." — Joss Whedon
"To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography." — George Santayana
"I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you." — Jason Reitman
"If you can feed your family, give them an education, then you are a success." — Jami Gertz
"Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day." — Mickey Rooney
"Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family." — Madonna Ciccone
"Faith in oneself is the best and safest course." — Michelangelo
"Besides the two Christmas things, we've got a about a dozen new tracks we're working on." — Chris Frantz
"Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building." — Thomas Fuller
"I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me." — Celine Dion
"I have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we're all nuts on some level. I think you've gotta be a little nuts to pursue any kind of creative job. I was also a really good kid. I know that sounds really dull, but I didn't rebel in the traditional sense." — Anna Paquin
"The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs." — Joaquin Phoenix
"To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him." — Buddha
"I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice." — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements." — Orison Swett Marden
"I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions." — Alan Dundes
"After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again." — Nancy Grace
"The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust." — Josh Billings
"Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for." — Adlai E. Stevenson
"Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope." — Thom Yorke
"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time." — Thomas Carlyle
"Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt so bad the morning after." — Elizabeth Wurtzel
"I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent." — Kate Bosworth
"Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world." — Martin Luther
"Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't." — Jonathan Safran Foer
"If God is just, I tremble for my country." — Thomas Jefferson
"The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry." — Reynolds Price
"I've succeeded beyond my wildest dreams - financially and the amount of fun I have in my life." — Phil Hartman
"My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams." — Diane Keaton
"I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society." — Joel Osteen
"For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations." — Paul Cezanne
"A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone." — Robert Kiyosaki
"The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano." — Yoko Ono
"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else you are the one who gets burned." — Buddha
"I get started at 5:30 in the morning and write till 10 A.M. Then I hike six or seven miles before going back to work." — Don Winslow
"I believe that investing in our children's development from the earliest age is the single most important contribution we can make to the health and wellbeing of our citizens, their capacity and the future prosperity of our state." — Jay Weatherill
"Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in." — Emmitt Smith
"It's cool to go places where working people are happy." — Neil Young
"Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book." — Robert Reed
"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working in just the same way, you learn to love by loving." — Anatole France
"I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology." — Gavin Bryars
"It will work. I am a marketing genius." — Paris Hilton
"Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery." — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals." — Stephen Covey
"To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries." — Aldous Huxley
"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny." — Thomas Jefferson
"Friendship is a sheltering tree." — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking." — Ted Nelson
"The fundamentals of baseball haven't changed, but how we can teach those fundamentals has. With an e-book, learning can be more rewarding and fun." — Dusty Baker
"The only thing I believe is this: A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules." — Sparky Anderson
"I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy." — Patrice O'Neal
"The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be." — Redd Foxx
"In the inhalation and exhalation there is an energy and a lively divine spirit, since He, through his spirit supports the breath of life, giving courage to the people who are in the earth and spirit to those who walk on it." — Michael Servetus
"One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too." — David Duchovny
"I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong." — Charles Kuralt
"If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protecting their own freedom to act, a breakup of Europe would be a more probable outcome than deeper integration." — Mario Monti
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before." — Jerry Saltz
"You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall." — Jawaharlal Nehru
"Age is not important unless you're a cheese." — Helen Hayes
"Action conquers fear." — Peter Nivio Zarlenga
"My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death." — Bear Grylls
"The gratification of desire is not happiness." — Daisaku Ikeda
"My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true." — John Astin
"Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides." — Victor Hugo
"My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories." — Bjorn Borg
"I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry, but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries." — David Wilkerson
"Suffering is one of life's great teachers." — Bryant H. McGill
"When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death." — Dennis Quaid
"Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback." — Len Wein
"It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling." — Mark Twain
"We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it." — Leonard Cohen
"Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too." — H. L. Mencken
"If you're not a competitor, you've just got to go home." — Venus Williams
"The best way of removing negativity is to laugh and be joyous." — David Icke
"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another." — Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Humor is reason gone mad." — Groucho Marx
"The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education." — John Updike
"Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature." — Jacob Bronowski
"When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way." — Sam Raimi
"And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness and he will never come to utter ruin." — Aeschylus
"Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military." — James Patterson
"I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool." — Nate Ruess
"The goal of all life is death." — Sigmund Freud
"And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment." — Bodhidharma
"Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day." — Jay Leno
"Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books." — Gaston Bachelard
"It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change it's sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now." — David Attenborough
"When I first thought of the idea for 'Sweet Valley High,' I loved the idea of high school as microcosm of the real world. And what I really liked was how it moved things on from 'Sleeping Beauty'-esque romance novels where the girl had to wait for the hero. This would be girl-driven, very different, I decided - and indeed it is." — Francine Pascal
"First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others." — Thomas a Kempis
"It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice." — Jim Morrison
"I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad." — Eminem
"The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world." — Bill Walton
"What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be." — Ellen Burstyn
"Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul." — Louis Kahn
"Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution." — Jay Leno
"We've seen the kind of social impact a professional sports team has on a city. A team brings high-profile role models into your community who are healthy and they're great images for the city to gravitate toward, especially for kids." — Mick Cornett
"If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker." — Thomas Huxley
"Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion." — Ralph W. Sockman
"I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that." — Matthew Fox
"If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace." — Ben Stein
"And so I look at it as a relationship that I have with him that I want to give him the honor and glory anytime I have the opportunity. And then right after I give him the honor and glory, I always try to give my teammates the honor and glory. And that's how it works because Christ comes first in my life, and then my family, and then my teammates." — Tim Tebow
"I've got a new relationship and I'm trapped in this old life." — Moon Unit Zappa
"I thought Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I've ever read in my life." — Helen Reddy
"The Left regards the Constitution as defective and outmoded - in part because it impedes the government's ability to control institutions, like churches and families, which stand between the state and individuals." — Gary Bauer
"I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society." — Charles Kuralt
"There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible." — P. J. O'Rourke